Re: "Trivial Question" - 32bit vs. 64bit vs. 32/64bit
On Thu 27 May Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Acutally the nVidia drivers depend a lot on the kernel, at least the
> drivers that are available for public download. The 1.0-5332 driver from
> nVidias web site won't compile with a 2.6 kernel, so you can only use
> it with 2.4 kernels. There is a new driver coming up (and already available
> for registered nVidia partners) that will do also with kernel 2.6 but AFAIK
> its not yet public.
I'm running 1.0-5336 with a 2.6.4-1-k7 stock kernel on an Athlon 3200+,
and it's working fine. I used the standard debian nvidia-kernel-source
and nvidia-glx packages and it 'just worked'. I've got a plain 32-bit
userspace though, don't know how that would affect it.
doug.
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